"She was such a strong woman that helped everybody," Tunon said. "That somebody would vandalize it and do something like that, she's not alive anymore, at least not physically, and that someone would go out of their way to do that, it’s just terrible."

No suspect descriptions were released Thursday, but police said video of the vandalism would be made available to the public if necessary.

City officials said they plan to install cameras and more lighting in the park to help prevent this type of incident from happening again.